Bonsai art is the product of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature

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Where did the bonsai come from? Westerners once thought that it originated in Japan, but later archaeological discoveries and a large number of documents prove that the art of bonsai originated in China, and it experienced a process from large to small, from outdoor potted plants to desk display. Japanese potted landscape art was introduced from China, and then spread to western countries.

Liu Geng's Legacy Author: Rui Xinhua

Bonsai is the product of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature. The production of bonsai art is derived from the admiration, worship, love, attachment and return of primitive ancestors to nature. Until the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the integration of literati hermit culture pushed the development of potted landscape art to a climax. The development of potted landscape art depends on the development of horticultural cultivation technology and ceramic technology, which lays a technical foundation for it. Bonsai is the crystallization of art and technology. It uses the posture of plants cultivated in pots to express the natural scenery and the author's thoughts and feelings. Therefore, it belongs to the ideological field, belongs to the cultural category of creation. Bonsai is to show a local landscape of nature, it can be reduced to a minimum unit-a tree or a stone, the maximum can be contained to a world, that is, its spiritual world. Contemporary bonsai art rapid development, modern people increasingly refined bonsai, classification is more detailed.

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According to the form of bonsai is divided into hydroponic, jungle, cliff-style, lying dry, straight dry, etc. Bonsai types also have large, medium, small, micro points. With the improvement of people's living standards, cultural literacy and aesthetic concepts, new varieties of potted landscape art with different styles will be developed one after another to contribute to creating a warm and comfortable environment. In the world art forest, potted landscape art is rich in natural flavor of one of the Oriental fine arts, but also one of China's unique traditional garden art.

Old cypress poses

Chinese bonsai is mainly divided into three categories: one is to plant as the main material for the creation of bonsai, known as stump bonsai; the second category is to rock or rock substitutes as the main material for the creation of bonsai, known as rock bonsai; the third category is in the pot close-up or mid-range position has a clear tree stone structure of the tree stone bonsai.

The shape of potted landscape is the expression of the author's thoughts and feelings. Its artistic image concentrates the essence of nature and is a miniature landscape with a high natural spiritual realm. It melts people's thoughts and interests into nature and expresses the charm of nature. In other words, the image of a bonsai is a personified natural image. The natural distribution of bonsai in China has obvious advantages of resources and geographical location. How to make use of these advantages, in the process of investigating and studying the main schools of bonsai art in China, this paper analyzes the influence of the modeling techniques and characteristics of each school of bonsai art on bonsai art. While summing up the artistic characteristics and modeling techniques of bonsai, we should also sum up its existing shortcomings. Standing on the starting point of vigorously developing the cause of bonsai art, relevant experts should make reasonable and continuous suggestions on improving the artistic grade of bonsai and shaping the unique characteristics of bonsai art. Only then can the Chinese potted landscape art flourish.